(Download) The Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities Writen By Cara G. Tremain
The Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities
Pre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of artifacts from Mesoamerica to museums and private collections. Informed by the fields of anthropology, economics, law, and criminology, contributors critically analyze practices of research and collecting in Central American countries. They assess the circulation of looted and forged artifacts on the art market and in museums and examine government and institutional policies aimed at fighting trafficking. They also ask if and how scholars can use materials removed from their context to interpret the past. The theft of cultural heritage items from their places of origin is a topic of intense contemporary discussion, and The Market for Mesoamerica updates our
Product details: The Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities
Author : Cara G. Tremain
Pages : 240 pages
Publisher : University Press of Florida
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ISBN-10 : 0813056446
ISBN-13 : 9780813056449

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